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DOUGLAS, Robert of Lochleven, Sir
(About 1510-1547)
ERSKINE, Margaret
(About 1515-1572)
LESLIE, George 4th Earl of Rothes, Sheriff of Fife
(About 1492-1558)
CRICHTON, Margaret
(1494-)
DOUGLAS, William of Lochleven, then 6th Earl of Morton, Sir
(About 1535-1606)
LESLIE, Agnes
(About 1536-)
DOUGLAS, Margaret
(About 1566-Before 1581)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. WEMYSS, John of that Ilk, Admiral of the Forth, Sir

DOUGLAS, Margaret 1

  • Born: About 1566
  • Marriage (1): WEMYSS, John of that Ilk, Admiral of the Forth, Sir 17 April 1574(contract) 1
  • Died: Before 1581 1

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Margaret married Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk, Admiral of the Forth, son of Sir David WEMYSS of that Ilk 'David with the Birken Flower' and Cecilia RUTHVEN, 17 April 1574(contract).1 (Sir John WEMYSS of that Ilk, Admiral of the Forth was born about 1557 and died by June 1622 2 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Margaret, married (contract 17 April 1574), when he was eighteen, to John Wemyss, son and heir of Sir David Wemyss of that Ilk. She had a charter on 18 April 1574 from John Douglas, Archbishop of St. Andrews, on the resignation of the elder Wemyss, of the lands of Methil and others, erected into a barony, to herself and her future spouse. She was dead before 1581, when he married again."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) 1

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).

2 e-books, Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss vol.1 by William Fraser (1888).

3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).

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